Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:16:45 +0530 From: manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critical : My X went down Message-ID: <49D89A25.9070209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a142e750904050109i380d1844vffb1f0c894e1fd8@mail.gmail.com> References: <49D7D92F.6000905@gmail.com> <3a142e750904050109i380d1844vffb1f0c894e1fd8@mail.gmail.com>
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Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 4/5/09, manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In attempting to unlock some Python related mysteries (which neither >> python-list nor python-help would respond to despite repeated queries), >> I found myself recursively portupgrading myself right up the xorg >> distribution. That wasn't half as bad as the fact that - after all that >> effort - X does not even start now. > > Use vesa driver instead, and direct intel driver questions to Xorg lists. > i810, driver that you used with old Xorg is abandoned and replaced with intel. > > Hello Paul, Thanks for the information. But, as for the plan of action, I think I'll go the other way round. I'll reinstall FreeBSD 7.1 from scratch and just make sure nobody ever touches my xorg setup again. I could upgrade my system, yes, but my Celeron Coppermine 800 MHz + Intel 810-based motherboard system was running just as fast as the fancy 2.0 GHz PC's at IBM where I was working last year. BTW, I seriously wish I were a billionaire so that I could help FreeBSD get rid of this X client-server nuisance forever. I have never seen anything so ill-conceived, pathetically fragmented (modular is the polite way of referring to it), inefficient and featureless. The Mission looks Impossible-3 but, for starters, I just got a job offer yesterday from a multinational where the pay is roughly 50% higher. So maybe, someday, ... :-) -- Thank you and Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-99830-62246 NB : Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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